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The debate over the seizure of MegaUpload may intensify this week as the site's hosting companies, Carpathia Hosting Inc. and Cogent Communications Group Inc., get ready to purge its data, according to an AP report. Federal prosecutors said in a letter that the data purge could take place as soon...

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Pop star Will.i.am endorsing Megaupload In putting the kibosh on MegaUpload, federal prosecutors arrested seven men and froze millions in assets. With their funds in limbo, MegaUpload can’t pay the costs to the companies that store its data, and a letter from the federales says that these companies, Carpathia Hosting Inc....

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Say bye bye to your legit uploads All data stored on the Megaupload servers could be deleted by this Thursday (2 February), including subscribers' personal and legitimate files. A letter filed by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia?states that the storage companies used by Megaupload...

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Cogent Communications Group Inc., the Internet-service provider, fell as much as 23 percent after file-sharing site Megaupload.com was shut down by U.S. authorities as part of a copyright-infringement investigation....

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Carpathia Hosting, one of MegaUpload‘s server companies, has responded to US federal investigator suggestions that user data will be deleted from Thursday February 2, pointing out it has no access to any files and denying it supplied the cut-off date. “Carpathia Hosting does not have, and has never had, access to...

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After seizing MegaUpload and freezing its assets last week, U.S. District Attorney Neil MacBride wrote in a letter to the site's lawyers saying "hosting companies may begin deleting the contents of the servers beginning as early as February 2, 2012." That's bad news for people who were using the site...

techcrunch.com

First the US Justice Department raided Kim Dotcom’s sprawling New Zealand estate and seized random items from cars to Predator statues. Then they shut down the massive website, froze their assets and threw seven men into a New Zealand jail pending an extradition trial. Dotcom and his cronies weren’t the...

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The hosting companies that stored the files from Megaupload users’ digital lockers, Carpathia Hosting and Cogent Communications Group, have decided not to delete that data from its servers — at least temporarily. For those of your who haven’t been following, Megaupload is/was a cloud storage company that encouraged users to...

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Third-party companies that stored Megaupload’s data may delete all user files on Thursday. Megaupload customers, even those not guilty of piracy or using the service illegally, have been unable to access their files since the website was shut down on January 19th. So far, seven men have been charged...

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If you stored files with Megaupload before it was shut down by the government, your data could be gone as soon as Thursday, the Associated Press reports. Because Megaupload's cash was frozen, they've been unable to pay the companies that store data for it, Carpathia Hosting and Cogent Communications...

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MegaUpload users with non-copyright infringing content trapped on the sized file-sharing site’s servers could have a lifeline, with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and one of MegaUpload’s hosts exploring data rescue possibilities. Frustration at the site’s downtime turned to panic last week, when reports from US prosecutors suggested MegaUpload’s inability...